(from the documentation chapter 14.3.).
This did produce an avi file that was playable in mplayer only! I tried viewing it in vlc and further edit it in avidemux, but none of them was able to show the picture, only sound worked. I wanted it in the end to be played in my hardware divx player, which I did not attempt. I tried to change the fourcc from the ffmpeg one to DIVX, just in case, but that doesn't help.

Did I use an option unavailable to other mpeg4 codecs? Any help?

Kostas

tex2us - Posted on Wednesday, February 27 2008 12:18:30 AM

use -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4
The defaults usually work best (and the output video is compatible with other players)